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Vertebral Stretch - 3D Wigglies December 17th, 2007
I’ve been experimenting with this three dimensional folded structure for a little while now, and for reference I’ve created a simple crease pattern in case anyone wants to fold this.
You can grab one of two versions - one on a grid, and one without. They are much smaller versions meant for reference understanding; just expand the construct to make it larger.
http://www.origamitessellations.com/docs/3D_wigglies.pdf
The version superimposed on a grid: (sorry for the misalignment, this was done for reference purposes only, not for publication anywhere!)
http://www.origamitessellations.com/docs/3D_wigglies_grid.pdf
I hope you enjoy, and if you fold one of these please send me a photo! I’d love to see how it turns out.
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Tessellation Basics booklet now available - free PDF! August 15th, 2007
Well, I had all the best intentions to add more content to this booklet - but it’s hard for me not to just put in all the material from my book! So I’m posting it now in the same format that I used at the Origami USA convention this summer.
This document is just a small taste of the material from the book, put together from some of the draft work and preliminary writings. The final product is quite lengthier and more detailed, as well as more polished. (Editors are very good at taking text like mine and making it readable!)
This 8 page booklet is meant to be printed on 11×17 (or A3, in a pinch) double-sided- so it can be folded into a proper booklet shape.
I had a lot of fun putting this together- thanks again to Jamie and Jeff for helping me to create and format this document!
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Teaching Tessellation Basics at OUSA June 17th, 2007
Bekah and I are heading to NYC tomorrow morning, to do a little touristing and personal meet-ups before the Origami USA convention June 22-25 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
I will be teaching two classes, one complex class on folding tessellations from this scallop shell unit, and one intermediate class on "tessellation basics". To that end, I whipped together a little booklet covering a few of the basic concepts, using some materials and ideas from my upcoming book. It’s really just a bit of a taste of the topic, but I wanted to help people grasp some of the simple bits, so the class would be a bit easier to teach- teaching is hard work, and I get easily sidetracked.
I will be posting a version of the 8 page booklet online after the convention, once I have an opportunity to shake out anything that the class (or others) feel is a little confusing, needs clarification, etc.
Jamie Kelley of Vancouver helped out enormously by taking my random snippets of text and imagery and wrangling them into a nice collection of pages. Thanks so much, Jamie! I’m very impressed with the final product.
For those of you going to the convention, who might be in NYC ahead of time- if you’d like to meet up for coffee or dinner please shoot me an email at origomi@mac.com, and we’ll see what we can arrange. I’m hoping to spend some quality time talking with other like-minded folders without the crush of the convention atmosphere, so if you’re interested in having a chat let me know.
Oddly enough, I always seem to travel on my birthday- tomorrow I turn 29 years old. The last year seems to have just whizzed past at a rapid pace. What new exciting things will the next year hold? I can’t wait to find out.
UPDATE: You can now download the PDF!
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Origami Tessellations: The Book April 30th, 2007
An alert Flickr friend let me know that my book appeared on Amazon.com:
Origami Tessellations: Fantastic Paper Geometry
I’m interested to see it listed, although it’s still in the final stages of layout and all that fun stuff. The “cover” shown is not the final one, but just the mock-up created for the catalog; I don’t know yet what the final cover will look like.
The final ship date is earlier than Jan 1, 2008- I hope, anyway- but nevertheless it’s not that far away, considering how much work still remains to be done on the publisher’s side of things.
Here’s the blurb text from Amazon, which (I’m guessing) is something that was written for the catalog that Lark sends out to all prospective purchasers.
Tessellations—shapes repeated over and over to fill a plane without overlapping—have inspired beautiful art, from intricate tile work to M.C. Escher’s playful graphics. Now, master origami artist Eric Gjerde has produced the same stunning kaleidoscopic patterns simply by folding paper! His awe-inspiring collection—the first of its kind—explores the creative possibilities of origami tessellations. The techniques will captivate anyone interested in papercrafting, mathematics, architecture, and design. Gjerde meticulously walks you through all the key folds and creases. Twenty-five projects are organized by complexity, beginning with the easy-to-learn Tiles Hexagon Tessellation and continuing to more exotic designs, like Arms of Shiva, Field of Stars, and Aztec Twist. Each one appears in extremely close-up photos—sometimes backlit—and an inspiring gallery of breathtaking tessellations by origami artists concludes the book.
So, things are moving along. This is the first visibly tangible evidence I have seen that this whole experience is actually real; it’s kind of strange, to be honest with you. I think when I hold the final result in my hands it’s going to be a very odd moment indeed.
-Eric
(PS: the amazon link is an affiliate thing, I don’t normally get all fired up about that sort of setup. However, I hope you don’t mind me referring my own book. Thanks!)
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New Version of Tess, Alex Bateman’s origami tessellation software January 23rd, 2007
Alex Bateman has released a new version of his landmark software, Tess.
Tess allows you to create all sorts of tilings, and modifications of those tilings- so you can explore possibilities without having to fold it all out in paper, first! Also, this new version provides PDF export capability, which is a major plus for windows users.
Tess is a Perl application, and will run on any Perl-capable system with a bit of tweaking. (This means you, Linux/FreeBSD/MacOSX users.) Or, if you’re running windows, you can download a standalone version, which will run on it’s own without requiring any Perl resources. Both of these are available to download from Alex’s website.
Download the latest version of Tess!
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Star Twist and Octagonal Star diagrams by Francesco Decio January 15th, 2007
Francesco Decio taught this model of mine at the Italian CDO convention in Verbania, in December. I was really impressed to see that he had made some great instructions, much much better than the confusing CP that I made a while back.
He also sent me some great instructions for my simple octagonal twist, which again are very clear and understandable!
I’m really thankful that he created these wonderful instructions, and furthermore that he has shared them with me and allowed me to share them with you.
Download them here:
Star Twist Progression, Two Layers (PDF)
Star Twist Progression, Three Layers (PDF)
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Luny Lunoid January 5th, 2007
We’ve been folding a lot of Lunoids around the house lately, really enjoying this great model by Philip Chapman-Bell. Most definitely download the CP and give it a try, it makes an oddly appealing shape that is most hard to identify.
We haven’t yet figured out what the shape looks like the most, but seed pods, loaves of bread, peasant shoes, fat little boats, and other such things have all taken a run at first place…
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Origami Rose by Oschene
November 24th, 2006
Philip Chapman-Bell, also known on the origami circuit as Oschene, just posted a crease pattern for this absolutely wonderful origami Rose, folded from a circle of paper. It has pentagonal symmetry! Marvelous!
Visit his website and download the CP.
Furthermore, as with all of his works, it is released under a very permissive Creative Commons license, which permits people to share, copy, print, and modify his designs, with a few limitations (share your creations under the same license, and no commercial use.) This is a great way to publish origami materials, as it allows individual users worldwide to use and share to their heart’s content while protecting the work from commercial exploitation by ethically-challenged people. Win-win, as far as I can see. I encourage you to think about releasing some diagrams in the same way, fearless reader!
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Joel Cooper’s Basket Weave, Crease pattern November 22nd, 2006
This is a crease pattern for Joel Cooper’s “Basket Weave” design, which features so prominently in many of his tessellation designs. It may have other origins as well- Joel has said as much; however, I have only seen it in his work, and that’s the first place I saw this, so until I see otherwise I’m crediting him with the design.
That being said, here’s two different CP’s for it: one without a grid, and one with a grid. I highly recommend looking at the grid version to understand the spacing for this design, as it’s rather tightly packed together when folded.
To see some photos of what this looks like when folded, peruse some of Joel Cooper’s mask photos; or check out the examples I folded a while back, here.
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Arms of Shiva, flagstone version (crease pattern) November 13th, 2006
This is a crease pattern of one of my designs[1][2] (which for the sake of convenience I have dubbed ‘Arms of Shiva’.)
However, this takes that design and throws it through the flagstonization machine, waterbombing all the folds to make the pattern you see above. While it might look like it is very wasteful of space (it is) there’s still less wasted paper doing it via this method than our normal straight pleat-and-twist methodology. Go figure!
I would love to see this folded, in case there’s anyone out there feeling intrepid enough to give it a try…
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